[QUOTE=Savage Octane;52589149]Cars aren't designed anymore. They throw a lot of string on a paper, and put wheels on it. Fucking modern cars are so ugly.[/QUOTE]
This is blatantly false though. The shapes and curves of modern cars are largely due to aerodynamics. Most of their designs tend to spend a lot of time in wind tunnels to figure out what curves they need for it.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;52592080]This is blatantly false though. The shapes and curves of modern cars are largely due to aerodynamics. Most of their designs tend to spend a lot of time in wind tunnels to figure out what curves they need for it.[/QUOTE]
This explains why modern day cars and trucks all look the same anymore. Aerodynamics don't change by the brand so they all end up with similar looking vehicles.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;52592080]This is blatantly false though. The shapes and curves of modern cars are largely due to aerodynamics. Most of their designs tend to spend a lot of time in wind tunnels to figure out what curves they need for it.[/QUOTE]
Well no shit. But they can at least try to make them attractive.
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The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967.
I really love the photos this guy took and the accompanying descripstions:
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[QUOTE]Coming Home Baby. When I left the processing center a day late I was into my second year. I wasn't too happy about it but had no choice. When I finally got on that plane and we were airborn it was a real relief.
The Airline must have choosen all babes for my flight cuz these ladies were gorgeous. This stew spent most of the trip in this position talking to all of the GI's. This is my lone surviving slide of the flight home. I spent a lot of time sleeping.
Our flight was from Dong Tam to Ben Hoa to Japan to Fairbanks to Oakland for leave processing.[/QUOTE]
Annoyingly there isn't really a way to share his images, this one is just one I happened to see on tumblr, but here is the guys flickr, really worth checking out: [url]https://www.flickr.com/photos/phu_loi_1969-1970/[/url]
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52568022]
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[editline]20th August 2017[/editline]
an ikea showroom with nothing inside
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[URL="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/iss-transit-during-2017-solar-eclipse"]NASA caught some nice pics of the ISS orbiting across the eclipse yesterday.[/URL]
[img_thumb]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/36670875426_39d028e28a_o.jpg[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=EuSKalduna;52593252][t]https://68.media.tumblr.com/c6a41e3e5ade21efda397e0b6b9a3395/tumblr_ouv9k1iiGc1s7e5k5o1_1280.jpg[/t]
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Vladimir Kamarov and Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin, the first human to reach outer space. The two men were close; they socialized, hunted and drank together.
In 1967, both men were assigned to the same Earth-orbiting mission, and both knew the space capsule was not safe to fly. Komarov told friends he knew he would probably die. But he wouldn't back out because he didn't want Gagarin to die. Gagarin would have been his replacement.
With less than a month to go before the launch, Komarov realized postponement was not an option. He met with Russayev, the now-demoted KGB agent, and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight."
Russayev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura," the book quotes him saying, "and he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.[/quote]
[url]http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage[/url]
I also can't confirm this but i hear he demanded before the flight for his funeral to be open-casket so that the soviet leadership would see what they had done.
This one actually comes from the Wikipedia page for Unreal Tournament.
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[quote]At sea aboard USS San Jacinto (CG 56) Nov. 2, 2002 – Cryptologic Technician Communications Seaman John C. Neas, left, and Fire Controlman 3rd Class David O. Gollner II playing Unreal Tournament, a networked computer game that allows players to combat each other from separate computer terminals located in the Learning Resource Center aboard the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56). San Jacinto is underway for a Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Michael W. Pendergrass. (RELEASED)[/quote]
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[QUOTE][I]Portrait of Innocent X[/I] by Diego Velázquez, circa 1650 [/QUOTE]
[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Head_VI_%281949%29.JPG[/IMG]
[QUOTE][I]Head VI[/I] by Francis Bacon, 1949[/QUOTE]
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Laika_ac_USS_Pueblo_%287960099660%29.jpg/800px-Laika_ac_USS_Pueblo_%287960099660%29.jpg[/img]
[quote]USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".
Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Potong River in Pyongyang, and used there as a museum ship at the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum for propaganda purposes.
Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive.[/quote]
'Leeza Soho' - Beijing
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[t]https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/pictures/2000x2000fit/5/3/7/1450537_Lobby_Atrium_UP__002.jpg[/t]
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enough to make your head spin just looking at it
where the hell did they find the architect for that thing? R'lyeh?
[IMG]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r6yhwY12aZ8/maxresdefault.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Rear_left_of_Futurliner_number_3.JPG[/IMG]
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Futurliner"]GM's Future-liner[/URL]
i don't care that it's an advertisement on wheels. I fucking love it. This is the future we declined.
Now that's some Fallout shit right there, all it needs is a thruster in the back
[QUOTE=DormitoryRapier;52600133][video=youtube;hFBzz5rB18g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFBzz5rB18g[/video][/QUOTE]
Found the source on this. I highly recommend you watch the whole thing.
[video=vimeo;229457692]https://vimeo.com/229457692[/video]
[QUOTE=https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/08/a-filmmakers-bizarre-impossible-journey-through-urban-spaces/537858]Chase, from photographer and filmmaker Páraic Gloughlin, is a frenetic three-minute journey that uses natural and urban infrastructure to tap into what it means to be alive in a city. The idea for the film, which was shot over two years in Ireland and Poland, initially came to Gloughlin when he started using his camera to observe people, places, and objects that shared common properties.
Scenes jump between sites man-made and natural, traveling down a brush-lined road one moment and hurtling through a subway station in the next. “Showing different routes of transport—from a muddy country walk way to a motorway or cityscape—was also an attempt to symbolize choice, decision, possibility, and change,” says Gloughlin.[/QUOTE]
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Volvo Tundra concept, 1979
[editline]31st August 2017[/editline]
also i heard you like boxy cars
[IMG]https://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/s/subaru/xt6/subaru_xt6.jpeg[/IMG]
The town of Naarden circa 1920
[t]http://www.wduwant.com/index_uploads/uploads/d92c53098440.jpg[/t]
and just how large was the fortification the town sits on? or was it a city to begin with, just with fortress-style moats and walls?
[QUOTE=Joazzz;52637109]and just how large was the fortification the town sits on? or was it a city to begin with, just with fortress-style moats and walls?[/QUOTE]
It was a city to begin with, the fortifications were constructed around it. Many towns in the Netherlands, but also Germany and Denmark for example, were fortified in a similar way. Naarden's fortifications are special because of the star shape, though.
[editline]1st September 2017[/editline]
Here's another one:
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This is Zwolle
this photo is also from the 1920's
Here's the whole album full of 1920's aerial photos of Dutch cities and forts [url]https://www.flickr.com/photos/nimhimages/page1[/url]
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Volvo Tundra concept, 1979
[editline]31st August 2017[/editline]
also i heard you like boxy cars
[IMG]https://i.wheelsage.org/pictures/s/subaru/xt6/subaru_xt6.jpeg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
The Tundra later became the Citroen BX
[IMG]http://www.automobile.at/modellbilder/Citroen-BX-26310_1265798847205.jpg[/IMG]
Last week in a lab class I was doing a project that involved making a superhydrophobic glass surface, and you can measure the extent of how hydrophobic it is by measuring the angle at which a droplet of water is in contact with the surface, I thought it might be cool to show:
[t]https://my.mixtape.moe/epnofb.jpg[/t]
You can compare this with teflon:
[t]https://my.mixtape.moe/rqngyv.jpg[/t]
Or a normal clean glass surface:
[t]https://my.mixtape.moe/xzhgch.jpg[/t]
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Photo taken of the the aftermath of a German attack by 16 years old[url=https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FfI3TOVXfPc/V2ceYYlvO2I/AAAAAAAAKbY/HOSHLNcrFXcCBOT0lrY2H4TB7tZ7pmy8gCLcB/s1600/Walter%2BKleinfeldt%25E2%2580%2599s%2Balbum%2Bshowing%2Bthe%2Baftermath%2Bof%2Ba%2Bskirmish%2Bduring%2Bthe%2BBattle%2Bof%2BSomme%252C%2B1916%2B%25288%2529.jpg]Walter Kleinfeldt[/url]
Others by him :
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[t]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/08/article-2576335-1C20ADAE00000578-21_964x667.jpg[/t][t]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/08/article-2576335-1C20AD7800000578-498_964x648.jpg[/t]
This is more of a music thing, but it's sort of miscellaneous, and I found it to be interesting.
Guy by the name of Washington Phillips was active in the late twenties recording gospel blues. The thing which makes him interesting is the nature of his instrument.
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Washington_Phillips.jpg[/img]
There's a lot of mystery surrounding the zither-like devices, and debate about what exactly they are. Prevailing theory is that the device is the result of rigging a celestaphone and phonoharp together, two already obscure and old instruments which produce noise by using small hammers to strike their strings. What makes this more strange is that there is audio evidence that Phillips is plucking at the strings of his handiwork, as opposed to using the hammers (in the image, both instruments also have their hammer attachments missing as well). Supposedly it would take him around thirty minutes to cobble the device together before each recording session, and the nature of how he did this isn't exactly understood.
Either way, his instrument is very entrancing, almost eerie in my opinion, and the closest I've heard to it would be something akin to a harp-music box. Supposedly Phillips referred to the device either as a "dulceola", or a "manzarene". Not a particularly religious sort, but the music resonates, and I find the story to be fascinating.
[video=youtube;OZXS4tnmI_0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZXS4tnmI_0[/video]
[video=youtube;SBpfdjpBniM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpfdjpBniM[/video]
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:fap:
Stumbled on this while looking up differentials for a project i'm working on.
Near as i can tell from just staring at it, the design replaced the inside spider gear spring with two pockets of pressurized oil on the outside, supplied by the two hoses at the bottom. The pressure acts on some friction plates, which pushes the circlet around the axle shaft into engaging with a sleeve, which is linked to the cast member supporting the spider gear, which is part of the ring gear, therin locking the axleshaft to the ring gear, varying with the force supplied by the pressurized oil.
Fucking brilliant design. 10/10
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;52642481][IMG]http://sphm-torque-site-production.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2015/08/limited-slip-differential-lsd-pic1.jpg[/IMG]
:fap:
Stumbled on this while looking up differentials for a project i'm working on.
Near as i can tell from just staring at it, the design replaced the inside spider gear spring with two pockets of pressurized oil on the outside, supplied by the two hoses at the bottom. The pressure acts on some friction plates, which pushes the circlet around the axle shaft into engaging with a sleeve, which is linked to the cast member supporting the spider gear, which is part of the ring gear, therin locking the axleshaft to the ring gear, varying with the force supplied by the pressurized oil.
Fucking brilliant design. 10/10[/QUOTE]
I bet this was designed by a German.
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